FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 25th

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-----Original Message-----
From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo at oreilly.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 3:59 PM
To: brandon at squareonedesign.com
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 25th

O'Reilly User Group Program
NEWSLETTER
October 25, 2001

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK...
Books
 - Palm OS Programming: The Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition
News
 - Registration Open for O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference
 - Learning Command Objects and RMI
 - With REALbasic, Object-Oriented Programming is Easy
 - Hailstorm in Hand
 - Perl Debugging for Beginners
 - An Interview with Philip Hazel, The Creator of Exim
 - Oddball Wireless Devices

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NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND
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Spread the word to your members...

BIOINFORMATICS:
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REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR THE
O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference
January 28-31, 2002, Tucson, AZ
Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa
http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/

AN INTERVIEW WITH EWAN BIRNEY: KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT O'REILLY'S
BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
Ewan is a biochemist by training and a programmer by practice, and he
is currently a Team Leader for Genomic Annotation at the European
Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/10/18/birney.html

TIM O'REILLY'S REASONS TO ATTEND
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2002/pub/w/17/tim.html

JAVA:
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LEARNING COMMAND OBJECTS AND RMI
William Grosso introduces the basic ideas behind command objects and
remote method invocations (RMI) in this ONJava.com article.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/10/17/rmi.html

MAC:
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WITH REALBASIC, OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IS EASY
Object-oriented programming is useful, powerful, and fun; and REALbasic
is a great way to learn it, says Matt Neuburg, author of "REALbasic:
The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition."
http://mac.oreilly.com/news/realbasic2_1001.html

..NET:
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HAILSTORM IN HAND
Mark Lucovsky, chief architect of Microsoft's .NET My Services
initiative (formerly Hailstorm), explains what's available in the
software developer kit just released at Microsoft's Professional
Developers Conference.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/10/23/myservices.html

OPEN SOURCE:
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PERL DEBUGGING FOR BEGINNERS
Debugging is like car repair: a novice might pull out the transmission
to fix a broken light. Here are ten Perl debugging tips that will save
you hours of frustration, by John Callender, author of O'Reilly's
upcoming "Perl for Web Site Management."
http://web.oreilly.com/news/perlmanagement2_1001.html

AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP HAZEL, THE CREATOR OF EXIM
Exim is an open source mail transport agent that has been steadily
growing in popularity, and Philip talks about why he developed it and
what to expect in the next version. Philip is also the author of
O'Reilly's "Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent."
http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/eximinterview_1001.html

APACHEMONTH.COM
A new service called ApacheMonth http://www.apachemonth.com/, is being
started by the team that runs LinuxMonth, http://www.linuxmonth.com/,
This is a heads-up if you enjoy the style of LinuxMonth--Q&A tips,
articles, etc.

WIRELESS:
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ODDBALL WIRELESS DEVICES
How can you resist at least trying a text pager that wants to be a cell
phone, or a PDA that doubles as a 900-MHz cordless phone? We couldn't!
Here's what we discovered.
http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/10/19/oddball.htmL

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BOOKS...BOOKS...BOOKS....
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REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE, email me for a copy.
Press release can be found at http://press.oreilly.com/

JUST RELEASED:
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Palm OS Programming: The Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition
Order Number: 8563
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/palmprog2/
Sample Chapter 5: Structure of an Application
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/palmprog2/chapter/ch05.html

USER GROUP REVIEWS:
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Northants Linux Users Group has reviewed several O'Reilly titles at:
http://www.northants.lug.org.uk/reviews/

TechWeek Live! reviews many of our books. Here are a few:
Malicous Mobile Code
http://www.techweektv.scriptmania.com/Reviews/maliciousmobilecode.htm
Programming Perl
http://www.techweektv.scriptmania.com/Reviews/programmingperl.htm
PGP
http://www.techweektv.scriptmania.com/Reviews/pgp.htm

DISCOUNT INFORMATION:
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BUY 2 BOOKS, GET ONE FREE...
O'Reilly's Fall book promotion
http://www.oreilly.com/news/buy2get1free_1001.html

Also, don't forget about your UG discount:
20% off O'Reilly books purchased direct, using the DSUG discount code.
Order online at www.oreilly.com or by phone, 800-998-9938.

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LOOKING FOR SPEAKERS?
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We are always trying to arrange speaking engagements with our authors,
whenever possible. If you have someone in mind, let me know. In the
meantime, here are a few authors looking to network with you:

Rob Brooks-Bilson, author of O'Reilly's "Programming ColdFusion" is
interested in speaking to groups, particularly in Delaware. If your
group lives outside of Delaware, and has funds to cover travel
expenses, we could arrange a visit from Rob.  Let me know.

Also,
Sinan Si Alhir, author of O'Reilly's "UML in a Nutshell" would enjoy
speaking to groups. He's in upstate Illinois, however if you have a
travel budget, we can work something out.

And...
James Tisdall, author of "Perl for Bioinformatics" wouldn't mind
bestowing his perls of wisdom onto UGs. James is located in Kimberton,
PA, however, again, if you have the means to support his travel
expenses, we can arrange something out-of-town. James frequently visits
NY, he's only 2 hrs away.

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ARE YOU GOING TO THE 5th ANNUAL LINUX SHOWCASE AND CONFERENCE?
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O'Reilly will be there, and so will I. Stop by and see us. I'll be
there on Thursday, November 5th, booth #709/711/713
November 5-10,
Oakland, CA
Oakland Marriott City Center
http://www.linuxshowcase.org/

Have a nice week.
I don't plan to send a newsletter next week, so you'll hear from me on
the 1st of November!

--Denise